LDAP Authentication

Grafana (2.1 and newer) ships with a strong LDAP integration feature. The LDAP integration in Grafana allows your Grafana users to login with their LDAP credentials. You can also specify mappings between LDAP group memberships and Grafana Organization user roles.

Configuration

You turn on LDAP in the main config file as well as specify the path to the LDAP specific configuration file (default: /etc/grafana/ldap.toml).

Bind & Bind Password

By default the configuration expects you to specify a bind DN and bind password. This should be a read only user that can perform LDAP searches. When the user DN is found a second bind is performed with the user provided username & password (in the normal Grafana login form).

bind_dn = "cn=admin,dc=grafana,dc=org"
bind_password = "grafana"

Single Bind Example

If you can provide a single bind expression that matches all possible users, you can skip the second bind and bind against the user DN directly. This allows you to not specify a bind_password in the configuration file.

bind_dn = "cn=%s,o=users,dc=grafana,dc=org"

In this case you skip providing a bind_password and instead provide a bind_dn value with a %s somewhere. This will be replaced with the username entered in on the Grafana login page. The search filter and search bases settings are still needed to perform the LDAP search to retrieve the other LDAP information (like LDAP groups and email).

POSIX schema (no memberOf attribute)

If your ldap server does not support the memberOf attribute add these options:

## Group search filter, to retrieve the groups of which the user is a member (only set if memberOf attribute is not available)
group_search_filter = "(&(objectClass=posixGroup)(memberUid=%s))"
## An array of the base DNs to search through for groups. Typically uses ou=groups
group_search_base_dns = ["ou=groups,dc=grafana,dc=org"]

Also change set member_of = "cn" in the [servers.attributes] section.

LDAP to Grafana Org Role Sync

Mappings

In [[servers.group_mappings]] you can map an LDAP group to a Grafana organization and role. These will be synced every time the user logs in, with LDAP being the authoritative source. So, if you change a user’s role in the Grafana Org. Users page, this change will be reset the next time the user logs in. If you change the LDAP groups of a user, the change will take effect the next time the user logs in.

Priority

The first group mapping that an LDAP user is matched to will be used for the sync. If you have LDAP users that fit multiple mappings, the topmost mapping in the TOML config will be used.